Former Civil Rights Leader Defends Flying Confederate Flag
- Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:28pm by
Buck Sexton
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H.K. Edgerton is a former NAACP chapter president who considers himself both a dyed-in-the-wool southerner and a staunch supporter of the Confederate flag.
The former civil rights activist is set to speak tonight in support of the Son’s of Confederate Veterans in Lexington, Virginia. He has agreed to speak because he wants to ensure Confederate flags will be allowed to fly on Lexington city poles.
Lexington outlawed the display of anything other than state or federal flags on city poles after outrage this past January when Confederate Flags were raised to celebrate Lee Jackson day.
Despite the fact that he is the former Asheville, North Carolina NAACP president, Edgerton argues that the flag is not a symbol of hatred, but rather represents the South and Christianity. Other, negative uses of the flag are the result of it being “hijacked,” according to Edgerton.
Today is certainly not Edgerton’s first foray into Confederate flag advocacy. A few years ago he marched in South Carolina in support of flying the flag at the state capital, Columbia.
He has been associated with a number of activist groups, including “Southern Heritage 411,” which has brought him scrutiny from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the past.
In defense of his past activism supporting the Confederate flag and his planned appearances today in Lexington, Edgerton said to WSLS-10 News:
“What is it that you people keep trying to make our flag out to be, this evil thing, this evil symbol, this evil presence.”
Watch the video of Edgerton’s full-throated defense of the confederate flag here, courtesy of WSLS 10 News:
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No Race Is Superior
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:39pmAnd I stand behind the Black people who see that symbol as evil. None of you are black so of course you will never ever understand. Not saying that some of you didn’t see savery as an evil thing, but to just dismiss others suffering just because you were not part of it is not AMERICAN IMO.
Report Post »Fed up in Bama
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:31pmWhy? Were you a slave? No one here owned a slave. And no one here was a slave. Get over it. Do you think that all the white people were born into rich families? Had everything handed to them on a silver platter…born w/ a silver spoon? We had rough lives too. Again, just get over it. It’s in our past and we need to move forward. We continue to move backwards…..live in the past, we’ll never be united.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 1:05amYou know, you’re racist. Defining people by their how their DNA manifests pigment, black this, white that… hate, hate hate.
Report Post »If I slice slice you in half, I bet your insides are meaty pink and red-blooded just like mine.
No one in life owes you anything, above all, any attention. I don’t care about YHO. You sound like you’ve got a mighty chip on your shoulder. Good luck.
Azreal
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:21amhttp://www.texas-scv.org/histdocs_harris.php
Please educate yourself.
How about the words of a black man from that time? would you say he is a racist as well?
Report Post »Unfortunately, lazyness and ignorance cares little about the color of a person’s skin.
No Race Is Superior
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:30pmlylejk
Report Post »It‘s very unfortunate that more white people on this website isn’t as intelligent or capable of conveying a thought as you are. The two people who attacked me and called me stupid are problems for the white race, and more than likely add the the divide of the black and white race. To USMarine0311
I never said that black people hate white people, I said that the mere fact that a lot of white people deny racism IS WHY BLACK PEOPLE HAVE ISSUES WITH THEM. How that equates to hate is beyond me. But I do disagree with your take on that flag. A flag can be a symbol of hate, if people used it while committing hateful crimes. And it was used as a symbol by racist people. For years and years and years. Why do white southerners not expect black people to remember that. Why do they expect black people to embrace it.
Cruzan
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:44pmYou are so wrong about southerners being racist. You probably think they are all republicans, too. FYI, the liberal democrats controlled politics in the south since the Civil War, electing the first republican in Georgia just a couple of years ago. You should also read Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.. You will note that he freed only the NORTHERN slaves, You could also learn that a black plantation owner in Louisiana was the original slave owner in the US.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:48pmI have no beef with you No Race Is Superior either and respect your opinions. People should remember the bad as well as good with history. It’s the remembering of the bad that will prevent it from being repeated. Again, I see the flag here flown quite often and I don’t have a problem with it. Many folk do. I say that having this flag also helps keep the memory of the bad in focus so that it won’t be repeated again. I don’t believe in judging folk by race by any means though. Heck, I’m Korean w/ a little Chinese in the mix, Chippawah American Indian, French, German, and Dutch (possibly even more places, but that’s as far as I traced my own background). I only think of myself as an American though. Served my country and proud of that. Worry for my country now since it has not understood why we had the Cold War in the first place. Love the overall Southern Heritage of independence even if it was from a perceived foe. It’s that desire for independence that has really distinguished us Southerners from other parts of our great country. I will concede that some folk do perceive the Confederate flag as one of oppression, but I view it as a symbol of Independence and I will tell you that those who show this flag here only see it in that light and do not see it as racist. Just my observations and opinions. I hate bigatry of all types; trust me. I do not see the Confederate flag as such bigatry though since I understand it to mean independence.
Report Post »davida61
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:52pmNobody says black people HAVE to accept anything. They have brains and they can think for themselves. I’m a free American. I can like whom I choose to like as long as I am not hurting anybody. If I want to fly the confederate flag, it’s none of your business. If I don’t want to like blacks then that is my perogative.
Report Post »carbonated
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 9:44pmCruzan: “…You should also read Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.. You will note that he freed only the NORTHERN slaves…”.
I believe he declared freedom ONLY for slaves in the Confederacy (and even then, he exempted places that were controlled by the Union Army). It was a desperate “military action” well into the war that aimed to do two things: 1) incite slaves to rise up and forcibly rebel – which, at that point, pretty much only white woman were left to manage the plantations and they’d be overrun; and 2) try to convince European nations (that had already freed slaves – peacefully by the way) to not support the Confederacy.
Many people at the time laughed at Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation because they saw right through its hypocrisy.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:34pmThere are far more racist blacks today than racist whites.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:39pm@carbonated
I agree that there was a strategy involved in Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, however, Lincoln’s anti-slave boni fides were firmly established in the Lincoln-Douglas debates which preceeded his Presidency.
Report Post »carbonated
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 8:33am@Viet Vet
Lincoln, like many in the North at that time disagreed with slavery and wanted it gone; however he did not want the races to ‘intermingle’ and was a very strong advocate of ‘colonization’ whereby all blacks would be sent out of the U.S. – anywhere but the U.S.
Lincoln also indicated that if he could preserver the Union without ending slavery, he would do so. He was a master lawyer / politician.
Report Post »Napkin
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:44pmIf the South is full of white racists, why do ANY blacks live in the South?
Report Post »DaveOregon
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:27pmGood luck and god Bless. It’s like the Nazi symbol – guess what – existed long before Nazi’s took it and corrupted it. Now you can’t use it even if your American Indian or Tibetan without being thought a facist. State’s rights over Federal oversight/impingement of State’s rights. That was the main gist of the fight. Slavery just an aspect. NOT ALL NORTHERNERS BELIEVED SLAVERY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED.
Report Post »ronljl
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 9:04pmDave is absolutely right. Once they get into their little brains that something is evil, it’s evil. You just aren’t allowed to disagree or have another opinion. The Indians (both of India and American) have been using the swastika for thousands of years, but the Nazi’s used it and now it is taboo to be displayed in anyway.
The Finnish Air Force had to remove it from all their aircraft at the end of WWII because of their southern neighbors. Finland had been using the Swastika since 1918 (when the Finn’s won their independence from the evil empire (well Russia anyway)) but the Allied Governments said it had to be removed.
It’s not the symbol, it’s the focus on a group that abused to it. You’re no longer allowed to speak about burning sticks, or being happy and glad, or something that is different. The Political Correctness Police have declared all these words and symbols to bad and not for general public consumption.
Will political correctness require this or future generations to destroy words and symbols that were poorly and sometimes evilly [sp] used by one group and deemed foul thereafter, or just that we no longer see things the way that you do/did. Where would you like to stop. The Christians destroyed great works in Rome and other countries because they didn’t agree with what that view, Islam has been doing the same thing to Christian, Jewish and Buddhist sites. Should we continue with this tradition of destroying that which we deem foul
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:35pmStates rights!
Report Post »No Race Is Superior
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:20pmAlienEarthling
Report Post »I don’t necessarily think everyone who has that on their car or wherever they may put a confederate sticker is a racist. But I’ll be willing to bet, they either have no black associates or friends and don’t want any. And are more than likely the type who has no compassion towards black southerners and how they feel about that symbol. I would never ever put a black panther sticker on my car or anything, because I know they are seen by white people as radicalists who hate white people. To say you are proud of a symbol, that another race sees as a reminder of suffering is very insensitive at the very least.
If you can’t understand that…I CAN ONLY RESPECT IT AND MOVE ON.
Mizurax
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:04pmNoRace, you are confused. “I don’t necessarily think everyone who has that on their car or wherever they may put a confederate sticker is a racist. But I’ll be willing to bet, they either have no black associates or friends and don’t want any.” That’s just stereotyping. I thought you were against that…
“I would never ever put a black panther sticker on my car or anything, because I know they are seen by white people as radicalists who hate white people.” No. “They are seen…” That has nothing to do with it. THEY ARE. They ARE “radicalists” who hate white people. Not “are seen.”
Tell us this: Why are you so against the Confederate flag? Why do you see it as a racist symbol? Now let me guess: You think the Civil War was fought over nothing but slavery.
Stop your whining, NoRace. Stop following the crowd. Educate yourself on the things you think you believe. Read some history.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 12:20amYou don’t even understand how wrong you are.
The highest population of blacks in the entire United States, is in Mississippi. Have you had a look at their state flag lately? Understand that they, by popular vote, decided to retain the battle flag in their state’s flag.
I have an SCV tag on my vehicle and have been known throughout my life as a Johnny Reb – it has never gotten in the way of my association with blacks, which has been quite alot and very amicable. Its character and mutual respect that should count in folk’s associations – not the flag they revere or the color of their skin. The kind of attitude you have is what keeps the races divided.
It would do you good to contact HK Edgerton in person and have him relate the conversation he had with Andrew Young regarding MLK’s view on the Confederate flag.
I have never seen a picture of a racist rally that didn’t include, quite prominently, the United States Flag. I’ve never seen anywhere that the official flag of the KKK was the Confederate flag. Quite the opposite, its the stars n’ stripes – not the stars and bars. When they were at their peak of power, they marched on Washington DC in their hooded masses – not a Confederate flag was in sight. They were all carrying the Stars and Stripes.
Report Post »rustystuff
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 1:12amWell I don’t suppose anyone will read this because I am replying so late, but – I proudly fly the United
Report Post »States flag (Stars and Stripes) – even though it flew over the ‘institution’ of slavery far longer than the Confederate First National (Stars and Bars) or the Confederate Naval Jack (also known as the battle flag) did. I am not offended by the Union Jack (flag of Great Britain) even though my British ancestors enslaved, abused and tried to exterminate my Irish and Scotch ancestors. However, I am highly offended by gang grafitti sprayed all over old, historical buildings in my neighborhood, and gangs who vandalize and destroy headstones in the cemetery. So, sorry for being politically incorrect, but – GET OVER IT!!!! It would seem that our 3+ decades of bending over backward (affirmative action, etc…) trying to right a wrong in which we had no part, has created a huge, hungry monster that believes it is ‘entitled’ to take and consume whatever it wants.
lylejk
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:18pmA flag is not racist or evil. If folk want to display it, let them. I’m from Alabama and many folk here do just that and I see no problem with that. It’s a matter of heritage and I never looked at the flag as a symbol but as remembering the past. Those who fail to remember the past and it’s related history is doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Slavery was wrong, but that wasn’t the main reason for the Civil War; it was actually a minor issue that escalated during the war itself. The Cvil war was all about states rights in general. Now this issue is showing itself again. I don’t see another Civil war ocurring but I do see an idealogical divide between state and federal governments. Even in our state, they are trying to tell us that we can not forbid illegal aliens from being here. How crazy is that. I’m not against immigration; I am one myself (Dad was in the U.S. Airforce). I’m against illegal immigration. It took 10 years for my Uncle to be able to have the privilege for him and his wife and family to come to the states (and it is a privilege). Why did he have to suffer the time when others just waltz right in and get the same benifits. Just plain wrong folks. Take a number and wait your time and be blessed when you get the opportunity to come here instead of being cursed by all those that came here the right way or born here. ‘Nough said. :)
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:45pmIt’s the way illegals vote that excites the democraps.
Report Post »Bill from NJ
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:12pmGood for you Mr. Edgerton!
Report Post »I Sir am proud of your stance, God Bless…
Bluebonnet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:27pmYes, thank you for the courage and beliefs that this flag is not evil and many say. Although I was raised on the Left Coast, I’ve always have a love for the South and loved the confederate flag.
Why must people pick out a symbol and make it evil? Never could figure that one out, but what I do know is warm feeling I‘ve always had for the South when I’d see this wonderful flag. It has never, never represented anything evil like others try to make it out to be.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:43pmVery brave and wise man. Godspeed in his efforts to relay the truth.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:12pmMr.Edgerton asks “What is it that you people keep trying to make our flag out to be, this evil thing, this evil symbol, this evil presence. That’s courtesy of the public school monopoly who writes revisionists history,progressives et al.
Report Post »tarheel11
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:10pmI see mr. edgerton quite a bit here in asheville. He is on the radio quite often here in asheville.
A brave man especialy here in the san francisco of the east. I saw him about 2 weeks ago on a bridge overpass over I-240 on a sunday afternoon waving the flag.
Report Post »No Race Is Superior
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:09pmThis flag was always held by racist people during the Jim Crow era. White people who were evil hating devils used this flag as a symbol for white pride and the KKK used it as their symbol…BUT YOU ALL WONDER WHY PEOPLE ASSOCIATE IT WITH RACISM. If you are going to try to argue for this flag PLEEEEEEESE be fair. I keep saying this over and over, this is why black people have issues with you al. You try to act like there is no reason for feeling something or someone is racist. If you are proud of the sourh, why show your pride with something that was so staunched in racism like that confederate flag. I am so glad the North is not with this man. It’s is just a d@mn shame.
Report Post »AlienEarthling
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:13pmI bet you think that The General Lee is a racist car just because it has the flag on it.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:15pmI see the public school monopoly created another fool, congratulations on your revisionists history it served you well.
Report Post »USMarine0311
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:18pmYou are ignorant to say that this is the reason blacks hate us. What if I ran around and said I hate all blacks due to all the flash mobs and gang attacks on whites perpetrated by the blacks as the reason, stupid right. So don’t be so stupid you’re self to say because I like the confederate flag I must be a racist.
Report Post »OutofSympathy
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:58pmNo Race, the problem you have is that plenty of us here have been being called racists, bigots, stupid among other things based solely on our affiliation with the TEA Party or our conservative views.
The word racist refers to a person who hates another based only on the color of one’s skin.
IF you want to see a racist the Blaze has plenty of articles on King Samir Shabbaz, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton and others… those are true racists who spin the truth.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 12:19am“White people … used this flag as a symbol for white pride”
You seem to have a problem with white people expressing racial pride.
Do you also take issue with back people expressing racial pride?
Report Post »blonderdays
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:06pmIt’s called “FREEDOM” …..Remember ?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 7:39amI dislike anyone trying to change history. What’s wrong with the Confederate flag being flown in Confederate cemeteries? That‘s what’s happening in Mississippi at the moment. There’s a “movement to remove them.” I guess people don’t realize that blacks also fought in the war — on the southern side.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:06pmWhere I live you could be shot for flying that flag. No joke. But if you really want to fool people, fly the actual Confederate national flag, not the battle flag shown here that everyone associates with the south.
Report Post »blonderdays
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:05pm“Outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes” It’s called FREEDOM ….Remember ?
Report Post »CrimsonTider
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:04pmHe gets it.
Report Post »itsallcrazy
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:02pmThis man is a fine example of Southern pride. I am proud to call him my fellow Southerner.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:54pmDave Chappelle – Clayton Bigsby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITchV88Gjk
This is the whole piece but has a watermark on it. Truly hysterical. Too bad Chappelle left the business. Don’t hurt yourself laughing at this one.
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:53pmThis is great to see. He has a lot of courage to stand up like this. God bless that man.
Report Post »captainbars
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:53pmhe’s right, you know, it was high-jacked…by racists who were indoctrinated in schools that all Southerners have ancestors who were slave owners. To this day, children are taught that the South went to war because they wanted to keep slaves. School children are indoctrinated and brain-washed with liberal lies.
Report Post »PanzerOfDoom
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:50pmIf we continue to forget our past and re-write history, we have no way of remaining the hope of the world.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:49pmThat’ll upset the CBC… Yippee!!!!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:49pmStill looks like a traitors flag to me, but of course i’m a yank.
Report Post »itsallcrazy
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:04pmYou yankees will never understand even if we explain it slowly and use small words.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:22pmhe’s a Great american!!!
Report Post »M100Spiral
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 3:01pmThe “heart” of the Civil War was slavery, according to the History Channel and all my high school and college history books. It always lingered in the “background” and in the back of both sides’ minds. The south was dependent on slavery.
Yes, Lincoln allowed slavery to continue in the South, but he intended to deny any new states coming into the Union to practice slavery. Unfortunately, this caused problems for the Union, even before the Southern succession.
The confederate flag only came into being in 1861. There were several different flags, but none of them existed before 1861. The flag really does symbolize rebellion against the Union!
Unfortunately, I see the South this way:
“‘Strange Fruit’
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallow south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to ripe, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Written and composed by Lewis Allen
Sung by Billie Holiday”
Not only is it the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, but it is also the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Fighters.
Report Post »M100Spiral
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:30pm@M100Spiral
I have a correction. It is the 50th anniversary of the FREEDOM RIDERS! I do not know what I was thinking.
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-05-2011/freedom-riders-breach.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4dcba3fe31e41e86%2C0
There are some cities in the South that are extremely racial. For example, within the last 15 years, Atlanta, Georgia, when their city planners brought in their new metropolitan bus system, they intentionally designed the routes and bus stops away from the African-American communities. This made it very hard for African-Americans to seek employment, to go work, to earn money so that they could buy a car or rent an apartment in a nicer neighborhood. Racism is still an issue in areas of the South. I have problems not associating the Confederate Flag with rebellion, slavery, and racism.
Report Post »Azreal
Posted on September 3, 2011 at 10:12amIf you only realized that the “North” was conquered, as well as the “South”.
Report Post »One reason the flag is so offensive is because of the “history” we were forced to swallow in school. I love the Stars and Bars, and I was born in Michigan. I guess that makes me a died in the wool Copperhead. I simply don’t believe that might makes right, or that we should shove our beliefs down other peoples’ throats.
Reconstruction happened in the entire “union” after the war was over. It is not an accident that the public school system began during reconstruction. What was it the was reconstructed? It isn’t a term that refers to buildings, roads, and economies. It was all about society and points of view. And there was as much reconstruction in the north as there was in the south. Please, if you really do think that because you are a “Yankee” that the flag is a traitor’s flag, I challenge you to look deeper into the subject. I once held this view as well.
If R.E. Lee was a traitor, they said the same about Washington. Count me among their number, for I desire liberty from tyranny!
TANK3584
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:46pmGood to hear that….That’s our state flag…Georgia…It will not come down and will contiune to fly…
Report Post »wes60
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:45pmI am proud of this intelligent man. God bless him.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:43pmMaybe the South should try & seceed again. We’re heading that way!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:47pmFor people in the South, the flag inspires pride…..and that is something radicals don’t want any of us to feel anymore…about anything.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:05pmI understand. I have the same feeling when I see my flag. But ultimately, this flag is the battle flag of another nation. Actually, the “Confederate Flag” is really the flag that flew over fort sumpter in 1861.
Report Post »That being said, I have no problem with folks displaying the flag of the C.S.A. as long as it has the flag of the country we both share (at the moment) displayed with it. Just as a side to this discussion, I find it interesting that Georgia’s flag was basically changed from the battle flag to the actual Confederate Flag. Go figure.
This_Individual
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 11:14pmSorry, Fort Sumter.
Report Post »USMarine0311
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:42pmI like this man not scared of a flag. The flag is not racist it is just a flag, a flag in which represented a ideology of state rights in which many people died for upholding. I see nothing wrong with the flag it self. Many identify the flag to slavery but that was just one component of the actual argument. I agree slavery was atrocious and should have never been practiced; however it still does not change the fact that this flag has deep meaning to some and just to assume they are racist because they like the flag makes you just as ignorant as the racists.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 7:34pmGood for him!!!!
Report Post »Tex Expatriate
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:21pmLet me ditto that and also point out that the Stars and Bars, behind the man in the picture, was not the Confederate Flag. It was the Confederate Battle Flag, created to mute confusion between the national flag and the flag of the Federal States.
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